* Labour market improves gradually, driven by temp jobs
* Manufacturing sector continues to shed jobs-INSEE
PARIS, Dec 9 (Reuters) - France's statistics office trimmed initial estimates of private-sector job creation in the third quarter of 2010 on Thursday, reporting a steady but relatively weak recovery in employment driven largely by temporary hiring.
French manufacturing continued to haemorrhage jobs while the service sector, and temporary recruitment in particular, offered a significant source of employment growth, a report published by the statistics office, INSEE, showed.
Overall, non-farm payrolls -- a catch-all measure that spans public service recruitment in healthcare, social services and education as well as the private sector -- rose 0.2 percent compared to the second quarter, which was the same pace of increase as seen in the second quarter, the figures showed.
INSEE trimmed to 0.1 percent the pace of the jobs increase in the private sector from the 0.2 percent it reported when it published preliminary estimates in mid-November.
In the service sector, the third-quarter rise in employment was 0.3 percent quarter-on-quarter and 1.6 percent when viewed versus the third quarter of 2009, with the rise in temporary work reported at 4.1 percent in th equarter and 22 percent versus the same period of 2009.
In industry, the quarterly decrease was 0.5 percent, or 2.6 percent year-on-year, and the decline in manufacturing was 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter and 3.1 percent year-on-year.
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(Reporting by Brian Love; editing by Patrick Graham)